“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” — Mark Twain

“Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious.” — Thomas Edison

“It’s better to be prolific than perfect.” — Joe Polish

“Good timber does not grow with ease: The stronger wind, the stronger trees; The further sky, the greater length; The more the storm, the more the strength. By sun and cold, by rain and snow, In trees and men good timbers grow.” — Douglas Malloch

“If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.” — Frank A. Clark

“Eighty percent of success is showing up.” — Woody Allen

“For every complex problem, there is a simple solution. And it’s always wrong.” — H.L. Mencken

“There are plenty of rivals to our work.” —C.S. Lewis

“God makes no appetite in vain.” — C.S. Lewis

“Resources are like cards. Resourcefulness is like muscle.” — Scott Belsky

“Faced with a choice between changing one’s mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy with the proof.” — J.K. Galbraith

“We do not want merely to see beauty, though, God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can hardly be put into words—to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it.” — C.S. Lewis

(Comparing Princess Diana w/ Mother Theresa) “For nearly all of us, becoming a celebrity is completely, categorically impossible. For all of us, becoming a saint is completely, categorically possible. So why are so many trying to become a celebrity and so few trying to become a saint?” — Andy Crouch

“Everything that is within your grasp is not meant to be in your hand.” — Terry Crews

"God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“No one ever drowned by falling in the water. They drowned by staying there.” — Steve Sims

“Persistent people are able to visualize the idea of light at the end of the tunnel when others can’t see it. At the same time, the smartest people are realistic about not imagining light when there isn’t any.” — Seth Godin

“The healing is in the return, not in never having wandered to begin with.” — Sharon Salzberg

“To achieve great things, two things are needed: 1) a plan, and 2) not quite enough time.” — Leonard Bernstein

“Life is full of obstacle illusions.” — Grant Frazier

“Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees.” — Paul Valery

“Education is knowing what to do when you don’t know.” — one of Kahneman’s students

“Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity beyond the resources you currently control.” — Howard H. Stevenson

“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.” — Louis L’Amour

"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” — Benjamin Franklin

“Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.” — George Eliot

"Between the idea / and the reality / between the motion / and the act / Falls the Shadow." — T.S. Elliot

"The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.” — Muhammad Ali

"Persistence is the single biggest predictor of future success. And the second thing is curiosity - what do you care about. The combination of persistence and curiosity is a very good predictor of employee success." — Eric Schmidt

“If the unexamined life was not worth living, was the unlived life worth examining?” — Paul Kalanithi

“Love tells me I am everything. Wisdom tells me I am nothing. And between those two banks, flows the river of my life.” — Nisargadatta

“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year, and underestimate what they can do in ten.” — Bill Gates

“Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” — E.L. Doctorow

"Inspiration only reveals itself after perspiration." — James Clear

"One of the scariest things in our lives is actually doing what we know we want to do." — Cheryl Strayed

"What looks inevitable in hindsight is often invisible with foresight." — Steven Kotler

"Hard work is the price of success." — John Crowley

“There are, it seems, two muses: the Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again and again to say "It is yet more difficult than you thought." This is the muse of form. It may be then that form serves us best when it works as an obstruction, to baffle us and deflect our intended course. It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.” — Wendell Berry

“Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.” — Martin H. Fischer

“Resistance is proportionate to the size and speed of the change, not to whether the change is a favorable or unfavorable one.” — George Leonard

"Hope is not a strategy, failures not an option, and luck is not a factor.” — Unknown

"It's easier to act your way into a new way of thinking, than to think your way into a new way of acting." — Millard Fuller

"Human intellectual development is a lifelong dialogue between inherited tendencies and our life history." — Richard Barnet

"No hurry, no pause.” — Tim Ferriss

"The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every thing they are doing in their life." — Vasudev

"We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training." — Archilochus

“The truth may set you free, but it won’t take you where you need to go.” — Jim Loehr

“From what we get in life, we make a living. From what we give, we make a life.” — Arthur Ashe

"Mental health is based on a certain degree of tension, the tension between what one has already achieved and what one still ought to accomplish, or the gap between what one is and what one should become.” — Viktor Frankl

“He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how.” — Viktor Frankl

"Success: when preparation meets opportunity." — Thomas Edison

“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” — Theodore Roosevelt

"There are some who dream abstractly and their dreams have no detail... All hopes and desires and ideals must be qualified by the efforts made to achieve them, by the obstacles in the way, and by the reality of imperfect human beings." — Roger Scruton